Science institute expects construction in 2006
This summer, work commences for the underground
Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies building
BY EVA SYLWESTER
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Groundbreaking for the under
ground Oregon Nanoscience and Mi
crotechnologies Institute building is ex
pected to take place during the
summer of 2006, and the building will
become occupied in fall 2007, accord
ing to the most recent schedule
released Thursday at the Campus
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“We slowed the project down a bit
because we wanted to get it right,” said
chemistry professor Jim Hutchison,
who is on ONAMI’s leadership team.
The committee met to review the
schematic designs for the building and
discuss the landscaping around the
area. Approval of the design will be at
the committee’s meeting in January.
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Hutchison said the site for the new
building, underneath the lawn be
tween Huestis Hall and Deschutes Hall,
was selected because of the relative ab
sence of vibrations that might harm the
building’s sensitive equipment and be
cause of its proximity to other science
buildings — including another science
building that may be built between De
schutes Hall and Franklin Boulevard in
the more distant future.
Hutchison said the new building will
feature space for collaborative endeav
ors, such as those the University en
gages in with Oregon State University,
Portland State University, Pacific North
west National Laboratory and industry
representatives through ONAMI.
Tim Evans, principal architect for
SRG Partnership, Inc., the firm design
ing the building, said the one part of
the new building that would not be
underground is the entrance.
Because neither Huestis Hall nor
nearby Streisinger Hall has a major en
trance, the entrance for the ONAMI
building might also function as a
major entrance for those two buildings.
It is likely that the entrance would be
a stairway that allows natural light
down into the ONAMI building, 19 feet
below the sidewalk.
One of the goals of the project is to
maintain open space on campus and
encourage more active use of the plaza.
Part of artist Scott Wylie’s “Science
Walk,” a chain of tiles on the ground
connecting the science buildings from
Cascade Hall to Deschutes Hall, would
have to be removed during the
Tim Bobosky | Photo editor
Tim Evans from SRG Partnership, Inc. speaks with Dennis Munroe, director of Physical
Activity and Recreation Services, explaining some of the landscaping options for the
yet-to-be-constructed underground building that will house the Oregon Nanoscience
and Microtechnologies Institute.
construction process, but Evans said
the pieces would be salvaged and then
either reinstalled or recreated to
emphasize links between the sciences.
Larry Gilbert, principal landscape
architect for Cameron McCarthy
Gilbert & Scheibe Landscape Archi
tects LLP, said the construction would
also necessitate the removal of at least
3$ trees. He added that these trees are
fairly young, planted only 10 years ago.
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Speaker encourages Americans
to leam about Sudan civil war
The African Studies Committee invited professor
Jok Madut Jok to contribute to its Boabab Lecture series
BY JOE BAILEY
NEWS REPORTER
For Americans concerned about
the conflicts and atrocities that con
tinue to ravage Sudan, Jok Madut
Jok suggested a way to help: Learn
more about the situation.
Jok, an associate professor of his
tory at Loyola Marymount Universi
ty, spoke Wednesday as the first lec
turer in the Baobab Lecture series,
presented by the University African
Studies Committee.
Born and raised in southern Su
dan, Jok has spent considerable time
researching and working with the
people in Sudanese refugee camps.
“They usually gave me the mes
sage: ‘If people around the world
know we are suffering, we aren’t
alone anymore,”’ Jok said.
Sudan has been divided by Civil
War since 1983, but it has received
significantly more international
attention over the past two years as
the world has watched government
sponsored militias attack the vil
lages of tribal African populations
in Darfur.
Approximately 200,000 people
have been killed and more than 1
million have been displaced in
Darfur since 2003, Jok said.
Jok traced the conflict in Sudan to
three political and cultural currents.
First, the rise of militant Islam in
northern Sudan has radicalized
Muslims who want to institute a
theocratic state, he said.
Second, the ruling elite in Sudan
has attempted to “homogenize” Su
dan as an Arab country, Jok said,
even though Sudan is composed of ,
ethnically diverse population groups.
These steps have outraged Su
danese who do not identify as Arab or ,
embrace radical Islam. To marginalize
opposition groups, the Sudanese
government has undertaken a policy of
silencing dissent.
“The response of the state has
been to arrest, to maim, to torture
and to exile,” Jok said.
Jok began his lecture with a pho
tographic slide show that illustrated
how the violence has influenced all
spheres of Sudanese life.
The slide show included a photo
of an African Sudanese woman car
rying a baby on her back while
tucking an AK-47 assault rifle under
her arm.
Jok criticized the international
:ommunity for its unwillingness
to intervene.
“It was the United States govern
nent that acknowledged genocide
n Darfur, but why the hell isn’t
t doing anything?” said Jok, refer
ring to a U.S. congressional resolu
ion passed in Sept. 2004 that
explicitly labeled the atrocities in
Darfur as “genocide.”
Jok also criticized European na
ions for continuing to do business
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